
Ethiopia’s Sacred Forests Are Shrinking
From OZY.com: Since receiving his forestry degree from Alemaya University of Agriculture in 1992, Wassie has been working to save, restore and expand Ethiopia’s rapidly

From OZY.com: Since receiving his forestry degree from Alemaya University of Agriculture in 1992, Wassie has been working to save, restore and expand Ethiopia’s rapidly

From California Academy of Sciences: From the sacred church forests of Ethiopia to the revered groves of Bhutan, political and religious leaders around the world

Article written by Dr. Lowman and Palatty Allesh Sinu in BioScience: Increasing degradation of tropical forests prompts the consideration of unconventional ideas to promote conservation.

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy” by Kathryn Lasky is now utilized as a key component in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) learning units in several states. The story is of particular interest to this website because it is based on the journey of ‘CanopyMeg’ and her children into the rainforest, and addresses the specific scientific investigations they undertook in a novel format.

Here is an article from Outside Magazine about a new book called, Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love, written

Dr. Meg Lowman is one of twenty conservation experts featured in a new book by Lori Robinson and Janie Chodosh. Just in time for Earth

From The World Weekly: New research has now emerged showing that water bears have a novel way of preserving themselves through droughts, using a unique

“As Mark Twain so aptly claimed, ‘explore, dream, discover.’ Those three words will turn an ordinary child into the next Charles Darwin or Ernest Shackleton. The world urgently needs a new generation of explorers, not just to scale mountains or travel into outer space, but also to explore the interstices of our cells and the anomalies of our climate.”
“In this day and age where computers and models can predict just about anything, we still need more explorers. We need parents to inspire their kids with the curiosity to explore and teachers to encourage their pupils and develop their capability to find things out for themselves.”

via TREE Foundation: Why Are TREE’S BEZA Books Important? Article by Helen Gold As you may be aware, TREE FOUNDATION is selling a book called ‘BEZA’. It’s a great

When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another Heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can